Improvement in inkstands



UNITED STATES PATENTTOFFIGE.

HENRY Gr. SQUIRES, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN INKSTANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,581, dated February 19, 1878 5 application filed January 14, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY G. SQUTRES, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ink-Wells; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, andin which- I Figure 1 represents a vertical section taken at line was of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top view when the ink-well is closed. Fig. 3 represents a side view of the glass ink-well.

This invention consists of an arrangement of an ink-well adapted for use in school, office, and private desks, and in ordinary movable inkstands. It is composed of the glass ink-well Grand the iron frame F, with its hinged cover 0.

The glass ink-well G is provided with two grooves, g g, one opposite the other, and of the special form shown in Fig. 3. The iron frame F has two small pins, 19 p, by which the well G is suspended in the frame, and the latter is fixed to the desk by means of wood-screws w w, and the .well hangs suspended in a hole bored in the desk to receive it.

The inside of the cover 0 is provided with a lining, c, of cork, wood, or other elastic substance, which fits close around the neck of the ink-well G, thus preventing the ink from thickening by evaporation, and from receiving dust.

What I claim as new is- 1. The combination of the ink-well G, provided with grooves g g, with the frame F, having pins 19 p, as described and set forth.

2. The frame F, having pins 10 p, and the hinged cover 0, having inside lining a, as described, and for the purpose set forth.

H. G. SQUIRES.

Witnesses:

WALTER MORRIS, SEBASTIAN Srnrz. 

